Land at their local 9am.
Compose at midnight your time, let Scheduled fire it at breakfast in their city. No more apologetic 'sorry for the late ping' openings.
Scheduled · WhatsApp
Schedule WhatsApp messages — sent automatically, from your iPhone.
Write a WhatsApp message today, choose the moment it should land, and Scheduled hands it to Apple Shortcuts so it sends itself. Built for the cross-timezone life: birthdays in Sydney, family check-ins in São Paulo, group chats that span six continents.
Built for international life
Reach the people you can't time-share with.
Family across borders.
Birthdays for the cousin in Lagos, Sunday check-ins to your parents abroad, anniversary notes for the friend who emigrated. Set them once for the year ahead.
Group chats that hit at once.
Send a single message to a WhatsApp group at a chosen moment — everyone sees it together, not whoever you remembered first.
Freelance WhatsApp follow-ups.
International clients who only use WhatsApp get a Tuesday-morning nudge whether or not you're awake when their week starts.
WhatsApp-specific
Every detail tuned for WhatsApp.
Not a generic scheduler bolted onto a chat app — Scheduled handles what WhatsApp specifically needs.
Auto-send via Apple Shortcuts.
One Personal Automation setup, then your scheduled WhatsApps fire without you tapping anything. Works with the standard WhatsApp app — no business API.
Pick groups, not just contacts.
Family group, project chat, recurring book-club thread — pick a WhatsApp group as the recipient and the whole room receives it at once.
Photos, emoji, and voice.
Attach a photo to the birthday wish. Drop in the emoji that makes it feel like you. Scheduled preserves the rich-content side of WhatsApp; nothing gets flattened to plain text.
Recurring birthday rules.
Tag a contact with a date and Scheduled queues the message every year. Move countries, change your phone, the rule keeps running.
Works with WhatsApp Business too.
If your iPhone has WhatsApp Business installed, Scheduled drives that app the same way. Use it for client conversations without switching tools.
End-to-end encryption preserved.
Scheduled hands the message to the WhatsApp app on your phone at send-time — WhatsApp's own encryption handles the rest. Nothing routes through our servers.
Why WhatsApp
The channel two billion people already check.
WhatsApp is the default phone-to-phone messenger almost everywhere outside North America. If your circle is international, this is the channel.
- 2B+
- monthly active WhatsApp users worldwide
- 180
- countries where WhatsApp is the top messenger
- $0
- per message — runs over WiFi or data
How auto-send works
One Shortcuts pairing, then it's hands-free.
WhatsApp doesn't expose a public scheduling API on iPhone — Scheduled bridges that gap with Apple's own automation framework, so you set it up once and forget it.
Step 01
Write the WhatsApp message.
Pick the contact or group, type the message, attach a photo if you want it. Schedule it for any moment from one minute to a year out.
Step 02
Pair Apple Shortcuts once.
Scheduled walks you through enabling one Personal Automation — about 30 seconds. After that, every scheduled WhatsApp uses the same plumbing.
Step 03
The message waits, locally.
Your draft and timing live on your iPhone. No data leaves the device until WhatsApp itself sends — Scheduled never sees the message body.
Step 04
Shortcuts hands it off.
At the scheduled moment, your iPhone opens WhatsApp behind the scenes, drops the message in the right thread, and taps send. You get a notification confirming it landed.
FAQ
WhatsApp questions, answered.
- No. Scheduled drives the official WhatsApp iPhone app via Apple Shortcuts — the same way Siri or any other accessibility automation does. It's not a third-party WhatsApp client, doesn't hit WhatsApp's servers directly, and doesn't bulk-message. Personal-account use stays inside WhatsApp's terms.
- Yes. If you have WhatsApp Business installed on your iPhone, Scheduled drives that app exactly like it drives the personal one. You pick the app at compose time.
- Yes — the iPhone needs to be powered on and connected (WiFi or cellular). Scheduled relies on Apple Shortcuts firing locally, so a powered-off phone misses the moment. The trade-off is end-to-end encryption stays intact; the message never lives on our servers.
- Yes. Pick the group as the recipient and Scheduled hands the message off to WhatsApp the same way you'd send it manually. Every group member receives it at the same moment.
- Yes. Scheduled passes the message to the WhatsApp app on your phone at send-time. WhatsApp's own end-to-end encryption takes over from there — Scheduled has no access to the message after handoff and never sees the recipient's response.
- Nothing extra. WhatsApp runs over WiFi or data — there are no per-message carrier fees regardless of where the recipient is. Scheduled adds zero cost on top of WhatsApp itself.
- About 30 seconds the first time. Scheduled shows you the one Personal Automation toggle to enable; after that every scheduled WhatsApp uses it automatically. You only do it once per phone.
- Yes. Attach a photo from your library, drop in any emoji your iPhone keyboard supports, and Scheduled hands the full payload to WhatsApp at send-time. Nothing gets flattened to plain text.
Need SMS instead?
If you're reaching US contacts, people without smartphones, or running appointment reminders, SMS is the better channel. We have a dedicated page for that.
See the SMS schedulerWant all five channels?
Scheduled also covers iMessage, Telegram, SMS and Email from the same iPhone app. The hub page lists every channel and how each one delivers.
See the full Scheduled overviewSchedule your first WhatsApp.
Free on the App Store. Premium unlocks unlimited auto-send and Apple Shortcuts pairing.